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AWARDS AND HONOURS
1. Azim Premji the ‘most generous Indian’ in Hurun India Philanthropy List 2015
Azim Premji has emerged as the ‘most generous Indian’ in the Hurun India Philanthropy List 2015, a ranking of the most generous individuals from India released on January 8. Premji donated Rs 27,514 crore for education through The Azim Premji foundation. The foundation works in 8 states and has more than 350,000 schools. This is the third successive year that Premji has topped the philanthropy list, says Hurun Research Institute that released the ranking. Donations were measured by the value of their cash or cash equivalent from 1 November 2014 to 31 October 2015.
Quick Link – Azim Premji “the most generous Indian”
2. Raghuram Rajan conferred Central Banker Award
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has been felicitated with the Central Banker of the Year Award (Global and Asia Pacific) for 2016 by the Financial Times Group’s monthly publication ‘The Banker’. The Central Banker of the Year 2016 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their country’s economy. In recognition of the RBI contribution to these achievements, The Banker has felicitated Rajan with the title of Global and Asia-Pacific Central Bank Governor of the Year.
Quick Link – Raghuram Rajan as Central Banker Award
3. India Pharma Awards given by Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers
The Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Ananth Kumar presented the first India Pharma awards in Bengaluru. The awards constituted by Department of Pharmaceuticals were given to outstanding Pharma Industries to motivate Indian Pharma and medical devices industries.
AWARD WINNERS
| CATEGORY OF AWARD | NAME OF THE COMPANY |
| OVERALL INDIA PHARMA EXCELLENCE AWARD | CADILA HEALTHCARE LIMITED |
| INDIA PHARMA LEADER AWARD | SHRI GLENN SALDANA, CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR, GLENMARK PHARMACEUTICALS LIMITED |
| INDIA PHARMA COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD | LUPIN LIMITED |
| INDIA PHARMA BULK DRUG COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD | SMS PHARMACEUTICALS LTD |
| INDIA PHARMA INNOVATION OF THE YEAR AWARD | CADILA HEATHCARE LIMITED |
| INDIA PHARMA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD | SUN PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRIES LTD |
| INDIA PHARMA CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROGRAMME OF THE YEAR AWARD | ABBOTT INDIA LIMTED |
| INDIA PHARMA MEDICAL DEVICES COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD | HARSORIA HEALTHCARE PVT LTD |
| INDIA PHARMA EXPORT COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD | CAMUS PHARMA PVT LTD |
| INDIA PHARMA BULK DRUG EXPORT COMPANY OF THE YEAR | SMS PHARMACEUTICALS LTD |
| INDIA PHARMA MEDICAL DEVICES EXPORT COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD | SCOPE MEDICAL DEVICES PVT LTD |
| SPECIAL AWARD: PHARMA PSU COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD | KARNATAKA ANTIBIOTICS AND PHARMACEUTICALS LIMITED, A PSU UNDER DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICALS |
Quick Link – Indian Pharma Awards
APPOINTMENTS
4. Sailesh appointed as Registrar General and Census Commissioner
Mr. Sailesh, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, has been appointed as Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India in the rank and pay of Additional Secretary. An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1985 batch (Assam-Meghalaya cadre), Mr. Sailesh will succeed Mr. C. Chandramouli, IAS (TN:1985) on his completion of tenure today. The appointment is for a period til July 28, 2017 or until further orders.
Quick Link – Sailesh as Registrar General and Census Commissioner
5. Devender Kumar Sikri appointed as the Chairman of Competition Commission of India
Former Gujarat cadre IAS officer Devender Kumar Sikri has been appointed as the Chairman of fair-trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI). Sikri will succeed Ashok Chawla as the Chairman of Competition Commission of India (CCI). Chawla was appointed as the Chairman of Competition Commission of India (CCI) on October 20, 2011. His tenure as Chairman of CCI has ended in January 2016.
Quick Link – Devender Kumar as Chairman for CCI
6. Amitabh Kant appointed as CEO of Niti Aayog
Amitabh Kant, secretary in the department of industrial policy and promotion, has been appointed the chief executive officer (CEO) of the NITI Aayog. He will take over the job after his retirement from service in February end. The competent authority has approved the appointment after Kant’s superannuation. The terms and conditions of his appointment will be conveyed in due course,” an order issued by the department of personnel and training said on January 8.
Quick Link – Amitabh Kant as CEO of Niti Aayog
BANKING AND FINANCE
7. HDFC targets fund size of Rs. 5000 crore for HCARE-1
To make medium to long term investment in development of mass housing Housing Development Finance Corporation announced that HDFC Capital Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation has been appointed as an investment manager for the HDFC Capital Affordable Real Estate Fund-1 (HCARE-1). HCARE-1 is a SEBI registered Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) and has been sponsored by the Corporation.
Quick Link – HDFC targets for HCARE – 1
INDIAN AFFAIRS
8. GOI removed the ban from traditional bull taming game Jallikkattu
GOI has removed the ban from traditional bull taming game Jallikkattu.Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given allowance to Jallikkattu to take place but at the same time it has set conditions for the Game in order to avoid cruelty to animals. The MoEF has also allowed bullock cart race called Rekhla race to take place in the states where it is traditionally performed. The MoEF has removed bulls from the list of animals banned from public display for entertainment. Jallikkattu was banned by Supreme Court of India in May 2014 considering the injuries sustained by the animals and participants while playing this game. Jallikkattu is played in the parts of Tamil Nadu during Pongal festival. In Jallikkattu a bull is released in the ground and a player tries to take control over the bull.
Quick Link – GOI removed ban for Jallikkattu
9. Govt to build 3 spl training centres for disabled sportsmen
The government will set up three state-of-the-art centres in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh to provide special training and support to sportsmen who are differently-abled. They want to adopt the best practices and parameters adopted abroad. Detailed project report will be prepared and by April or May they will initiate the construction of the buildings. The centres will be set up in Zirakpur in Punjab, Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Gehlot also said that his Ministry has moved the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014 to the Cabinet. Under the new draft Bill, the number of disabilities has been raised from 7 to 19, while the percentage of reservation has been raised from 3 to 5. As a part of Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan (Accessible India Campaign) launched on December 3 on International Day of Persons with Disability, the Minister said 48 cities (A and B) have been selected where 100 “most important government buildings” will be converted into fully accessible buildings by July 2016.
Quick Link – Govt build 3 spl training centres for disabled sportsmen
10. Andhra Pradesh Introduced e-Tappal system
A software tool – known as the Online Tappal Management System- for the convenience of people launched by the Andhra Pradesh state Regional Transport Authority, Vijayawada. The state Government of Andhra Pradesh have introduced the system at RTA, Vijayawada, Gudivada and Nandigama as a pilot project and can be adopted at other offices of the state Government after being tested for sometime. In most cases, locating applications is a time consuming process and at times, they even gets misplaced in different sections. Easy processing is the objective.
Quick Link – AP Intro e-Tappal
11. India-France military exercise Shakti-2016 begins
Indian and French troops began their eight-day counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency joint exercise Shakti in Rajasthan on January 8, 2016. The French contingent comprising 56 personnel of 35th Infantry Regiment of 7th Armoured Brigade, which had taken part in the Afghan war, had arrived in Jodhpur on January 6 to take part in Shakti-2016. A French Army contingent, led by Maj Thibaut De Lacoste Lareymondie on January 7 arrived at the Mahajan Field Firing Ranges.
Quick Link – India-France millitary excersise from 2016
12. Larsen and Toubro set to partner Russia for Rs 5,000-crore defence deal
Engineering giant Larsen and Toubro is set to get a major share in a Rs 5,000-crore deal to upgrade and refit Russian-origin Kilo class submarines. The company, which is already a leading partner for the nuclear submarine project of the Indian Navy, has been chosen as the Indian partner for the Kilo class refit — a program to increase the life of the submarine by 10 years involving complex engineering.
Quick Link – L & T with Russia for defence deal
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
13. Nissan successfully tested driverless car using at NASA Centre
Automaker Nissan has successfully test-driven its all-electric, driverless car at NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California. Nissan’s all-electric LEAF performed safe autonomous drives across the Ames centre. The Nissan LEAF vehicle is equipped with cameras, sensors and cellular data networking. It uses robotics software originally developed for Ames’ K-10 and K-REX planetary rovers to operate autonomously. Last year, the US space agency and the automaker Nissan announced a five-year partnership to build self-driving, zero-emission autonomous cars for earth- and eventually space. The partnership allows researchers to develop and test autonomy algorithms, concepts and integrated prototypes for a variety of vehicular transport applications. Nissan is already testing cars that can navigate urban environments on their own. The effort can develop technology that will be put to use in passenger vehicles here on Earth and rovers on planets.
Quick Link – Nissan tested driverless car at NASA
14. Astronomers spot most massive galaxy cluster ever
Astronomers have detected a massive, sprawling, churning galaxy cluster – about 1,000 times more massive than our Milky Way galaxy – that formed only 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang. The early universe was a chaotic mess of gas and matter that only began to coalesce into distinct galaxies hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. It would take several billion more years for such galaxies to assemble into massive galaxy clusters. Astronomers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Missouri and the University of Florida have detected IDCS J1426.5+3508 (or IDCS 1426), the most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first 4 billion years after the Big Bang. Located 10 billion light years from Earth and potentially comprising thousands of individual galaxies, the mega structure is about 250 trillion times more massive than the Sun, or 1,000 times more massive than the Milky Way galaxy.
Quick Link – Astronomers massive galaxy cluster ever
SPORTS
15. India’s Siril Verma ranked number 1 in Junior Badminton players ranking
India’s Siril Verma climbed up 11 places to occupy the number one spot in junior men’s singles category in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings issued on January 7. Verma, the current world junior championships runners-up and regarded as the next big thing in Indian badminton, is ahead of second placed Toma Junior Popov of France while another Indian Chirag Sen occupies the third spot. Meanwhile, star Indian women’s shuttler and London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal continues to occupy the second spot in the rankings behind Carolina Marin of Spain, while Li Xuerei of China is at the third position.
Quick Link – India’s Siril as number 1 in Junior Badminton
OBITUARY
16. Mufti Mohammad Sayeed dead, Mehbooba to succeed as CM
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, died on January 7 and just hours later his party PDP chose his daughter Mehbooba Mufti as his successor. He crafted an impossible coalition with BJP in the Muslim-majority state. Sayeed, 79, breathed his last at AIIMS this morning after remaining on ventilator for the past few days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid glowing tributes to Sayeed and offered homage to him at the technical area of the Palam airport before the body was flown to Srinagar in an air force plane.
Quick Link – Mehbooba as CM for J & K
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